The Nobles of the Mystic Shrine:
Freemasons who worship at the Shrine of Allah

[J. Edgar Hoover was a Shriner; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a
Shriner pictured in Masonic apron from Life magazine, 1949.]

"The individual is handicapped by coming to face with a
conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists."
-- Freemason J. Edgar Hoover

Apart from injecting the opiate of Marxism into the body
politic of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was party to a
an organization called the Shriners, or Ancient Arabic Order
of Nobles of the Mystics Shrine, attaining the high rank of
Knight of Pythias. Allegedly an offshoot of the Illuminati,
the list of notables that the Order claimed as its own is as
lengthy as it is impressive; some, who were also members of
the Rosy Cross, include Mirabeau, Frederick the Great, Kant,
Spinoza, Goethe, Sir Francis Bacon, and Girabaldi.

Freemasons, Walter Flemming and William Florence founded an
American branch in New York, 1870. Membership in the order
was open only to Freemasons who had reached the 32nd degree
of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite or those who've
attained the last degree of the York Rite, the thirteenth
degree (Knight Templar).

The Order of Nobles and Mystics have origins which date back
to the seventh century  apparently founded by a descendent
of Mohammed. Author Michael Howard describes the Order's
symbols.

The symbol of the Order is a crescent moon, made from the
claws of a Bengal tiger, engraved with a pyramid, an urn and
a pentagram. The crescent is suspended from a scimitar and
in the Order is a representation of the Universal Mother
worshipped in ancient times as Isis. The horns of the
crescent point downwards because it represents the setting
moon of the old faith at the rising of the Sun of the new
religion of the brotherhood of humanity. - The Occult
Conspiracy, p.93. According to Marilyn Hickey, the star and
Crescent symbolizes Lucifer and Diana.

In her book, "Hidden Secrets of the Eastern Star", Dr. Cathy
Burns notes that the crescent moon with a star inside, apart
from being used in some cultures to represent Isis, also can
be interpreted to designate the godess Diana, or Hecate, who
was the dark mistress of the underworld, "Queen of Witches,"
Morgana with her moonboat. The emblem is a fertility symbol
and, according to Dr. Burns, a symbol of witchcraft. Godess
Diana was spoken of in the Bible, where Demetirius, a silver
smith, made shines for Diana and thus earned his living, but
the Apostle Paul's preaching was persuading people that the
idols were nothing compared to the true God. (see Acts 19:26
and I Corinthians 8:1-6). Paul was persuading people that
the temple of the great godess Diana should be despised, and
her "magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the
world worshipeth."

According to Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan,
the Shriner's have a ritual similar to a satanic ritual
called "The Ceremony of the Stifling Air", or better known
as "L'air Epais." LaVey says that this rite was originally
performed "when entering the sixth degree of the Order of
the Knights Templar." If the Masonic candidate chooses to
follow the York Rite, after he completes the 13th degree
called the Knight Templar, he can apply to become a Shriner.

LaVey describes the Templars' ritual thus:

The original Templars' rite of the Fifth degree
symbolically guided the candidate through the Devil's Pass
in the mountains separating the East from the West (the
Yezidi domain). At the fork of the trail the candidate would
make an important decision: either to retain his present
identity, or strike out on the Left-Hand Path to Shambhala,
where he might dwell in Satan's household, having rejected
the foibles and hypocrisies of the everyday world.
A striking parallel to this rite is enacted within the
mosques of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, an order reserved for thirty-second degree
Masons. The Nobles have gracefully removed themselves from
any implication of heresy by referring to the place beyond
the Devil's Pass as the domain where they might "worship at
the shrine of Islam."
Once the celebrant has taken this degree, he embarks upon
the Left Hand Path and chooses Hell in place of Heaven. -
The Satanic Rituals  Companion to the Satanic Bible, p. 21

[Illustrations above are from Chick Publications; To become
a Shriner, the Freemason must first swear a Moslem oath with
his hand on the Koran, and as a reward for this act of bet-
trayal to the true God of the Bible, Jesus Christ, the Mason
is given a fez cap, symbolizing the butchery of thousands of
Christians in the Moroccan city of Fez by Moslem terrorists,
who dipped their caps in the streets that ran with the blood
of Christian Martyrs.]

Pretty powerful stuff for sure, and not what you would
expect of the "merry old men" wearing "fez-hats" and tending
to burn victims! One part of LaVey's interpretation I find
interesting is the choice the candidate makes in following
the "Left-Hand Path of Shambhala". In esoteric doctrine the
principle city of the underground world is Shambhala.

In this subterranean kingdom presides an all-powerful and
All-Seeing ruler  The King of the World. Some have called
him Sanat Kumara, others, King Satan. (This may not be as
far fetched as it seems. The Bible clearly states that Satan
is the "prince" and "lord" of this world  John 12: 31 14:
3, Eph. 6: 12, Luke 4: 6-7, and 2 Cor. 4: 4  and in fact
has dominion over this fallen world) This King of the World,
according to Eastern tradition, has a rule and influence
which stretches to the surface world by means of trusted
emissaries who carry out specific tasks and duties 
including a secret 8 million who carry out his tasks
unbeknownst to us all. As we shall see, one such "emissary"
had a considerable influence with Roosevelt's Secretary of
Agriculture.

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...the phrase so often employed, `the All-Seeing Eye.' This
refers to the planetary Logos to see all parts, aspects and
phases (in time and space) of his planetary vehicle,... -
Alice Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age II - Teachings on
the New Age - Part IV